Summer Noontide (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The slender snail clings to the leaf, Gray on its silvered underside: And slowly, slowlier than the snail, with brief Bright steps, whose ...
Madison Julius Cawein Poems (581 Poems)
The Berriers (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
MORN. Down silver precipices drawn The red-wine cataracts of dawn Pour soundless torrents wide and far, Deluging each warm, floating star. A sound of winds ...
A November Sketch (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The hoar-frost hisses 'neath the feet, And the worm-fence's straggling length, Smote by the morning's slanted strength, Sparkles one rib of virgin sleet. To ...
The Old House By The Mere (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Five rotten gables look upon Wan rotting roses and rank weeds, Old iron gates on posts of stone, Dim dingles where the vermin ...
Invocation (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. O Life! O Death! O God! Have I not striven? Have I not known thee, God, As thy stars know Heaven? Have I not ...
In Arcady (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I remember, when a child,How within the April wildOnce I walked with MysteryIn the groves of Arcady….Through the boughs, before, ...
Demeter (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Demeter sad! the wells of sorrow lay Eternal gushing in thy lonely path. Methinks I see her now--an awful shape Tall o'er a ...
Dolce Far Niente (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IOver the bay as our boat went sailing Under the skies of Augustine,Far to the East lay the ocean paling Under the ...
Carmen (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
La _Gitanilla!_ tall dragoons In Andalusian afternoons, With ogling eye and compliment Smiled on you, as along you went Some sleepy street of old ...
Self And Soul (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
It came to me in my sleep, And I rose from my sleep and went Out in the night to weep, Over the ...
Falerina (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The night is hung above us, love, With heavy stars that love us, love, With clouds that curl in purple and pearl, And ...
Loveliness (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. When I fare forth to kiss the eyes of Spring, On ways, which arch gold sunbeams and pearl buds Embraced, two whispers ...
Genius Loci (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. What deity for dozing laziness Devised the lounging coziness of this Enchanted nook?--and how!--did I distress His musing ease that fled but now, ...
Late October (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Ah, haughty hills, sardonic solitudes, What wizard touch hath, crowning you with gold, Cast Tyrian purple o'er broad-shouldered woods, And to your pride ...
The Man In Gray (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
_Written for the Reunion of the Confederate Veterans at Louisville, Ky., May and June, 1900._ I. Again, in dreams, the veteran hears The bugle ...
Persephone (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
O Hades! O false gods! false to yourselves! O Hades, 'twas thy brother gave her thee Without a mother's sanction or her ...
The Passing Of The Beautiful (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
On southern winds shot through with amber light, Breeding soft balm, and clothed in cloudy white, The lily-fingered Spring came o'er the ...
The Wind Of Summer (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
From the hills and far away All the long, warm summer day Comes the wind and seems to say: "Come, oh, come! and ...
To Autumn (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I oft have net thee, Autumn, wandering Beside a misty stream, thy locks flung wild; Thy cheeks a hectic flush more fair ...
The Old Farm (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Dormered and verandaed, cool,Locust-girdled, on the hill;Stained with weather-wear, and dull-Streak'd with lichens; every sillThresholding the beautiful;I can see it ...
The Cricket (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. First of the insect choir, in the spring We hear his faint voice fluttering in the grass, Beneath some blossom's rosy covering Or ...
The Unattainable (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Mark thou! a shadow crowned with fire of hell.Man holds her in his heart as night doth holdThe moonlight memories ...
Under Arcturus (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I"I BELT the morn with ribboned mist; With baldricked blue I gird the noon,And dusk with purple, crimson-kissed, White-buckled with the hunter's-moon."These ...
July (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Now 'tis the time when, tall, The long blue torches of the bellflower gleam Among the trees; and, by the wooded stream. In ...
Unanointed (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. Upon the Siren-haunted seas, between Fate's mythic shores, Within a world of moon and mist, where dusk and daylight wed, I see ...
At Nineveh (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Written for my friend Walter S. Mathews. There was a princess once, who loved the slave Of an Assyrian king, her father; ...
Geraldine, Geraldine (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Geraldine, Geraldine, Do you remember where The willows used to screen The water flowing fair? The mill-stream's banks of green Where first our love begun, When ...
Carissima Mea (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I look upon my lady's face, And, in the world about me, see No face like hers in any place: _Therefore it is ...
The Path Of Faery (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IWhen dusk falls cool as a rained-on rose,And a tawny tower the twilight shows,With the crescent moon, the silver moon, ...
Leander To Hero (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. Brows wan thro' blue-black tresses Wet with sharp rain and kisses; Locks loose the sea-wind scatters, Like torn wings fierce for flight; Cold brows, ...